Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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TBM Avenger landing on USS Guadalcanal about 6 Jun 1944 while the carrier was towing the captured submarine U-505. Guadalcanal’s hunter group captured U-505 in the western Atlantic on 4 Jun 1944.	Troops and vehicles on board a landing craft approaching Omaha Beach, Normandy, 6 Jun 1944	Troops of 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division assembled on Omaha Beach before moving inland near Collville-sur-Mer, 6 Jun 1944; note LCI(L)-83 in background landing more men	Two LSTs with troops of the US 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, moved toward the French coast, 6 Jun 1944

US Army Rangers resting near Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, inland from Omaha Beach, 6 Jun 1944; note soldier using finger to push cartriges into magazine of his M1 Carbine	US Army Rangers showing off the ladders they used to storm the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944	US Army soldiers at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944	US Army soldiers recovering remains of comrades at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944

US Army soldiers resting at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944	US Army weapons carrier moved through the surf toward Utah Beach, Normandy, after being launched from its landing craft, 6 Jun 1944	US Navy Lieutenant Commander Knapper and Chief Yeoman Cook of USS Texas examining a damaged German pillbox at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944; note covered dead US Army Ranger at right	US troops landing at Normandy, 6 Jun 1944

A makeshift monument to a fallen American soldier at Normandy, France, Jun 1944	A-20G Havoc aircraft over Le Molay-Littry, France, 7 Jun 1944	Americans land on Utah Beach from LCT-475, Normandy, 7 Jun 1944	Captured German submarine U-505 three days after her capture as her tow was being transferred from the carrier USS Guadalcanal to the ocean-going tug USS Abnaki in the western Atlantic, 7 Jun 1944.

Captured German submarine U-505 with salvage crew on deck (distance) being taken under tow by fleet tug USS Abnaki (foreground), 7 Jun 1944, mid-Atlantic.	Escort Carrier USS Guadalcanal off the African coast, 7 Jun 1944. The captured U-505 is in the foreground with a US Navy whaleboat alongside.	Horsa glider and the remains of its occupants, Cotentin Peninsula, France, Jun 1944	Minesweeper USS Tide with her back broken and sinking after triggering a magnetic mine off Utah Beach, Normandy, France, 7 Jun 1944.